Monday, 9 January 2017

Jury Out on Julia


Hello Stranger from Julia Holter's album Loud City Song appears on the Best of 2013 compilation I featured the other day.
This prompted me to give her 2015 album Have You  in My Wilderness another listen.
I bought it that year with my Christmas money alongside Gwenno's Y Dydd Olaf and LoneLady's Hinterland and to me it is the weakest of the three.
It has a couple of good tracks such as the one below but so far it has failed to ignite a spark.
Maybe after a few more listens or perhaps maybe not.
I know that many of my blogging colleagues will disagree as it featured in many best of the year lists for 2015

Julia Holter - Hello Stranger

Julia Holter - Sea Calls Me Home


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7 comments:

  1. George9 January 2017 at 09:36

    Big thumbs down for track one from both of us. My partner staring off into space with the second track, but I quite like it

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  2. The Swede9 January 2017 at 09:59

    I realise that Julia Holter is a well respected artist, but I'm afraid that the title of this post speaks for me too. It's about time for some new stuff from Gwenno and Lonelady though.

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  3. drew9 January 2017 at 17:04

    Bogging colleagues. That's no way to talk about your mates

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    1. Charity Chic9 January 2017 at 18:09

      Oops - now corrected!
      Probably only those with a West Coast of Scotland connection would have picked that up

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  4. Brian9 January 2017 at 18:41

    Not at all bad but, as you say, no Gwenno.

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  5. JTFL9 January 2017 at 23:53

    I kinda like Holter's stuff, but I have to be in the mood for it. And I'm not in the mood for it that often.

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  6. Ernie Goggins10 January 2017 at 17:32

    I'm with you on this as well, CC. Had a few goes at getting into it but never quite managed to do so

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